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Raised beds have many advantages over conventional garden beds: easier on your back and knees, better soil quality and drainage control, and a tidier look. Figuring out the right layout for you is key to growing successfully all season long. | Raised beds have many advantages over conventional garden beds: easier on your back and knees, better soil quality and drainage control, and a tidier look. Figuring out the right layout for you is key to growing successfully all season long. | ||
Before you start, learn a few basics about size, planting, and spacing in raised garden beds. | Before you start, learn a few basics about size, planting, and spacing in raised garden beds. | ||
=====Durable Raised Garden Beds===== | |||
[https://www.instructables.com/Durable-Raised-Garden-Beds/ by Owen Geiger in Living AUTODESK Instructables] | |||
Most gardeners are familiar with Mel Bartholomew’s Square Foot Gardening system. It’s one of the most popular gardening systems in the world. He’s sold over 1 million books (more than any other gardening book). With this method you can grow fives times more plants in a given space with less maintenance. You’ll use less water, fewer seeds, and have healthier plants and fewer insect problems. He says it takes half the labor of typical gardening. You don’t even have to dig down in the soil, because the beds are raised above ground. This means you can grow plants almost anywhere, including areas where the soil is really bad. Instead of trying to fertilize and amend lousy soil over a period of years, you use perfect soil right from the start. Be sure to check out his Square Foot Gardening website for full details. In short, it’s a fantastic system and works great. | |||
